Sociological Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociological Review is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen29
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China27
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools26
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China23
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies22
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste20
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting18
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?18
The familiar strange of sociological fiction17
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability16
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities16
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 202216
Work aspirations, intellectual disability and ‘cruelling out’ the mark in the job club15
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach15
Who counts in poverty research?14
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’14
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop13
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes13
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto12
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*12
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India12
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care12
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas12
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile12
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway12
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure12
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community12
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships11
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’11
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments11
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna10
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis10
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey10
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family10
Racialised mobilities in China10
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction10
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura10
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China9
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China9
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence9
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency9
Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia9
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal9
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice)9
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives9
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism9
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods9
Some stories, more scenes9
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies9
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain8
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research8
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum8
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’8
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention8
Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: ‘Progress’ as learning to live on a self-transforming planet8
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda8
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)8
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’8
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances7
The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled: Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain7
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload7
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism7
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic7
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure7
Fiction in Goffman7
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities7
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis7
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map7
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk6
Joining up well-being and sexual misconduct data and policy in HE: ‘To stand in the gap’ as a feminist approach6
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem6
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’6
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement6
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s6
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID6
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture6
The spectral material culture in ordinary life: Re-imagining obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)6
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK6
The lines of descent of the present crisis6
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods6
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England6
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism5
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society5
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela5
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement5
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place5
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’5
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy5
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future5
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics5
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit5
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal5
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’5
Dark waters, dark waters5
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum5
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state5
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–19405
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission5
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK5
Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia4
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives?4
Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship4
Corrigendum4
Vanguard fantasies: The wealthy upper classes as politically spirited wealth elite establishment4
Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration4
Towards an empirically robust theory of stigma resistance in the ‘new’ sociology of stigma: Everyday resistance in sheltered workshops4
Cultivating cultural capital and transforming cultural fields: A study with arts and disability organisations in Europe4
Learning the post-Fordist feeling rules: Young women’s work orientations and negotiations of the work ethic4
Tilting relationalities: Exploring the world through possible futures of agriculture4
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe4
Ecological uncivilisation: Precarious world-making after progress4
Dirt, decency and the symbolic boundaries of caregiving in residential homes for older people4
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal4
In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity4
Claiming deservingness: The durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic4
The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures4
‘We are forever traumatized’ – Aseel Baidoun interviewed by Cairsti Russell4
‘I do feel proud that almost everyone I know voted’: The emotional foundations of dutiful citizenship4
Introduction4
By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship4
Technologies of abjection: The possessive logics and performative sovereignty of drug dog operations in New South Wales, Australia3
The Russian Revolution and photography: The tragic paradoxes of canonisation3
The (in)visibility of sewage management and problematization as strategy for public awareness3
Living differently? A feminist-Bourdieusian analysis of the transformative power of basic income3
Schools as public things: Parents and the affective relations of schooling3
Doing community in social distancing times: Faith, sociality and new embodied practices during the Covid-19 pandemic3
Frictional rhythms of climate work in city governance3
Fly-tipping and the sociology of abandonment3
Deconstructing giftedness: A relational analysis of the make-up of talent in theatrical dance3
Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss3
De-communalising the hot pot: Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-193
The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility3
Cultural repertoires of school choice: Intersections of class, race and culture in Pretoria and Amsterdam3
Straying with the Trouble: Science fiction, utopia and the anti-carceral imagination3
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring away the crisis?3
W. E. B. Du Bois’s forgotten sociology of morality: Contesting the foundations and informing the future of the sociology of morality3
Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination3
Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice3
Explosive legacies: Gaza and colonial aphasia3
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Intergenerational living arrangements and older parents’ happiness in China: The role of family social capital3
Sociography of a curious object: Descriptive research, the #OneLess refill pilot, and practices of hesitation3
Ambivalent pleasures: Towards narcofeminist alterlife3
Present feelings, feeling present: Liveness in research on time and feeling during the Covid-19 pandemic3
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity3
Expanding the ‘Third Space’ between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory3
Algorithmic control and resistance in the gig economy: A case of Uber drivers in Dhaka3
Making the left behind as a subject of crisis3
Asymmetrical understandings of the value of time between Taiwanese Working Holiday Makers and the Australian government: Cultural exchange or serving time?2
Doing youth participatory action research (YPAR) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology2
Bureaucracy and patrimonialism on Wall Street: How organizational forms contribute to elite reproduction2
Knowledge, progress and the knowledge of progress2
Slick and smooth: The role of petro-products in making and maintaining ‘femininity’ in the beauty salon2
Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour2
Exploring the racial habitus through John’s story: On race, class and adaptation2
Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America2
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings2
Therapeutic politics and the institutionalisation of dignity: ‘Treated like the Queen’2
Live methods and live things: Cultivating attentiveness to dormant things to develop a vital sociology of the everyday2
The social connectedness of digital practices in later life: It’s not just about learning, it’s all about relationships2
The uses of poetry2
The ‘good story’ and kindness Twitter: Tales of hope and fears of dupery during Covid-192
Class Mistreatment in Elite Settings: Upward Mobility and Cross-class Interactions2
The spiritual turn and the disenchantment of the world: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the religion–science conflict2
Cooking up change: Food practices and class trajectories across the life course2
The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change2
Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding2
Sociography: Writing Differently2
An ontological turn in the sociology of personal life: Tracing facet methodology’s connective ontology2
Non-identity accounts: Personal myths, cultural scripts and narrative alignment2
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living2
Beyond recognition: Identification and disidentification in visual resistance to stigma2
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem2
The lonely activist: On being haunted2
Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology2
Reconceptualising Judith Butler’s theory of ‘grievability’ in relation to the UK’s ‘war on obesity’: Personal responsibility, biopolitics and disposability2
Scaffolding collective hope and agency in youth activist groups: ‘I get hope through action’2
Feminisation, governance and Roma on the urban margins2
Intergenerational relations: Paradoxical integration of feelings, opportunities and issues2
State containment and closure of gendered possibilities among a millennial generation: On not knowing Muslim young men2
‘Clean communication’: Felt-sense methodologies and the reflexive researcher in equine-assisted personal development2
Figuring out fairness: The social construction of inheritance entitlements in close relationships2
Imposed volunteering: Gender and caring responsibilities during the COVID-19 lockdown2
Family and queer temporality among Chinese young gay men: Yes, but not yet2
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